diff --git a/hack/import-restrictions.yaml b/hack/import-restrictions.yaml
index ddab3397137..4507c8305cb 100644
--- a/hack/import-restrictions.yaml
+++ b/hack/import-restrictions.yaml
@@ -152,3 +152,9 @@
   - k8s.io/api
   - k8s.io/apimachinery
   - k8s.io/cluster-bootstrap
+
+- baseImportPath: "./vendor/k8s.io/cloud-provider/"
+  allowedImports:
+  - k8s.io/api
+  - k8s.io/apimachinery
+  - k8s.io/client-go
diff --git a/staging/README.md b/staging/README.md
index 41314ced3ec..34ff9884b07 100644
--- a/staging/README.md
+++ b/staging/README.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Repositories currently staged here:
 - [`k8s.io/apiserver`](https://github.com/kubernetes/apiserver)
 - [`k8s.io/cli-runtime`](https://github.com/kubernetes/cli-runtime)
 - [`k8s.io/client-go`](https://github.com/kubernetes/client-go)
+- [`k8s.io/cloud-provider`](https://github.com/kubernetes/cloud-provider)
 - [`k8s.io/cluster-bootstrap`](https://github.com/kubernetes/cluster-bootstrap)
 - [`k8s.io/code-generator`](https://github.com/kubernetes/code-generator)
 - [`k8s.io/csi-api`](https://github.com/kubernetes/csi-api)